Damn and blast. Now I'll never know what Robert Burns' Address To A Haggis means. Some friends and I have attempted to race puddings but were unable to find a chieftain to preside and it all went wrong.

I can relate. My parents were native speakers of the dialect spoken in the Novara province of Italy, itself a mix of the languages of Piemonte and Lombardia. Today, I find myself to be the only person within a large distance of my Canadian home who can fully understand Novarese, Piemontese, and Lombardese. Even in Italy, the number of speakers of those dialects and languages keeps getting smaller and smaller.

WorkingInParadise:Anal Tobacco Furnace: WorkingInParadise: Aye an' a bit of Mackeral settler rack and ruinran it doon by the haim, 'ma placewell I slapped me and I slapped it doon in the sideand I cried, cried, cried...

pink floyd?

Ummagumma. I got it in the $1 bin, notch in the cover. It's an obsure album, you've probably never heard of it... :)I had to Google the lyrics, though.

Obscure now, perhaps. They used to play that on the radio when I was a kid.

Yet, when Quebecers take actions to defend theirs, Fark explodes in a fit of Quebec-bashing by all the unilingual language experts.

That's not what I see. The minority of citizens in Quebec who are lango-nazi obnoxious pricks get made fun of. I doubt many farker/farkettes has a real problem with keeping French the primary language in Quebec.

However, with this mans death came the last time that very old dialect is ever spoken. That's noteworthy at least, I find it to be a somber reminder of our own mortality.

Yet, when Quebecers take actions to defend theirs, Fark explodes in a fit of Quebec-bashing by all the unilingual language experts.

That's not what I see. The minority of citizens in Quebec who are lango-nazi obnoxious pricks get made fun of. I doubt many farker/farkettes has a real problem with keeping French the primary language in Quebec.

However, with this mans death came the last time that very old dialect is ever spoken. That's noteworthy at least, I find it to be a somber reminder of our own mortality.

Sure. People who vigorously defend their language and culture against the surrounding majority are lango-nazi obnoxious pricks, those who don't make the news when they die as the last native speakers of their language